Nouakchott

Nouakchott is the capital of and its largest city, with almost 1.2 million residents in 2019. The city is the hub of the Mauritanian economy and is home to a deepwater port and Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport, one of the country's two international airports.
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  • City with 958,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 10 metres (33 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code NKC
  • Description: capital of Mauritania
  • Also known as
    “Capital of Mauritania”
    “Nawākshūṭ”
    “Nouakchat”
    “Nouakchot”
    “Nouakchott, Mauritania”
    “Noukchott”
    “Nuwākshūṭ”

Places of Interest

Highlights include G5 Sahel and National Museum of Mauritania.
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The , also known as the…
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The Olympic Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Nouakchott, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Arafat and Sebkha.
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, Mauritania is a suburb of Nouakchott and urban commune in western .

Nouakchott

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Latitude
18.0792° or 18° 4′ 45″ north
Longitude
-15.978° or 15° 58′ 41″ west
UN/LOCODE
MR NKC
Open location code
7CC632HC+MQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249166495
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2377450
Wiki­data ID
Q3688

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Nouakchott” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Nouakchott”
  • Adyghe: “Нуакшот”
  • Afrikaans: “Nouakchott”
  • Albanian: “Nouakchott”
  • Albanian: “Nuakçot”
  • Amharic: “ኑዋክሾት”
  • Arabic: “انواكشوط”
  • Arabic: “عاصمة موريتانيا”
  • Arabic: “نواقشط”
  • Arabic: “نواقشوط”
  • Arabic: “نواكشط”
  • Arabic: “نواكشوط”
  • Arabic: “نوق الشط”
  • Aragonese: “Nouakchott”
  • Armenian: “Նուակշոտ”
  • Asturian: “Nouakchott”
  • Asturian: “Nuakxot”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nuakşot”
  • Balinese: “Nouakchott”
  • Bashkir: “Нуакшот”
  • Basque: “Nuakchot”
  • Basque: “Nuakxot”
  • Belarusian: “Нуакшот”
  • Bengali: “নউকচোট”
  • Bengali: “নুওয়াকশুত”
  • Bosnian: “Nouakchott”
  • Breton: “Nouakchott”
  • Bulgarian: “Нуакшот”
  • Catalan: “Nouakchott”
  • Cebuano: “District de Nouakchott”
  • Cebuano: “Nouakchott (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Nouakchott”
  • Central Kurdish: “نواکشۆت”
  • Chechen: “Нуакшот”
  • Chinese: “努瓦克肖特”
  • Chinese: “諾克少”
  • Cornish: “Nouakchott”
  • Croatian: “Nouakchott”
  • Czech: “Nawakšút”
  • Czech: “Nawākšūṭ”
  • Czech: “Nouakchott”
  • Czech: “Nuakšott”
  • Danish: “Nouakchott”
  • Dutch: “Nouakchott”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نواكشوط”
  • Esperanto: “Nuakŝoto”
  • Estonian: “Nouakchott”
  • Extremaduran: “Nuakchot”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Nouakchott”
  • Finnish: “Nouakchott”
  • French: “Nouakchott”
  • Fulah: “Nouakchott”
  • Ga: “Nouakchott”
  • Galician: “Nouakchott”
  • Georgian: “ნუაქშოტი”
  • German: “Nouakchott”
  • Greek: “Νουακσότ”
  • Greek: “Νουαξότ”
  • Guarani: “Nuakechóte”
  • Gujarati: “નયૂવાક્ચોટ”
  • Haitian: “Nouakchot”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nouakchott”
  • Hausa: “Nouakchott”
  • Hebrew: “נואקשוט”
  • Hindi: “नवाक्शूत”
  • Hindi: “नुआकशोत”
  • Hungarian: “Nouakchott”
  • Icelandic: “Núaksjott”
  • Ido: “Nouakchott”
  • Inari Sami: “Nouakchott”
  • Indonesian: “Nawakshut”
  • Indonesian: “Nouakchott”
  • Interlingua: “Nouakchott”
  • Interlingue: “Nouakchott”
  • Irish: “Nouakchott”
  • Irish: “Nuacsat”
  • Italian: “Nouakchott”
  • Japanese: “ヌアクショット”
  • Javanese: “Nouakchott”
  • Kabiyè: “Nuwakicɔɔtɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Nwaqcuṭ”
  • Kannada: “ನೌಕ್ಚೋಟ್”
  • Kazakh: “Нуакшот қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Нуакшот”
  • Kirghiz: “Нуакшот”
  • Kongo: “Nouakchott”
  • Korean: “누악쇼뜨”
  • Korean: “누악쇼트”
  • Kotava: “Nouakchott”
  • Kurdish: “Nuakşot”
  • Kurdish: “Nûakşot”
  • Latin: “Nouakchott”
  • Latvian: “Navākšūta”
  • Latvian: “Nawākshūṭ”
  • Latvian: “Nouakchott”
  • Latvian: “Nuakšota”
  • Ligurian: “Nouakchott”
  • Lithuanian: “Nuakšotas”
  • Livvi: “Nuakšot”
  • Lombard: “Nouakchott”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nouakchott”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Nouakchott”
  • Macedonian: “Нуакшот”
  • Malay: “Nouakchott”
  • Malayalam: “നൌവാക്ക്ച്ചോട്ട്”
  • Marathi: “नवाकसुत”
  • Mazanderani: “نواکشوط”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nouakchott”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nouakchott”
  • Minangkabau: “Nouakchott”
  • Mingrelian: “ნუაქშოტი”
  • Moksha: “Нуакшот”
  • Mongolian: “Нуакшот”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “نواكشوط”
  • N'Ko: “ߣߎߥߊߞߑߛ߭ߐߕ”
  • Navajo: “Níyoltah”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nouakchott”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nouakchott”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nouakchott”
  • Norwegian: “Nouakchott”
  • Novial: “Nouakchot”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nouakchott”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nuakshut”
  • Ossetian: “Нуакшот”
  • Panjabi: “ਨੁਆਕਚੋਤ”
  • Papiamento: “Nouakchott”
  • Persian: “نواکشوت”
  • Persian: “نواکشوط”
  • Piemontese: “Nouakchott”
  • Polish: “Nawakszut”
  • Portuguese: “Nouakchott”
  • Portuguese: “Nuaquechote”
  • Portuguese: “Nuaquexote”
  • Pushto: “نواکشوت”
  • Romanian: “Nouakchott”
  • Russian: “Нуакшот”
  • Santali: “ᱱᱚᱣᱟᱠᱛᱥᱩᱛ”
  • Sardinian: “Nouakchott”
  • Scots: “Nouakchott”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nouakchott”
  • Serbian: “Nawākšūṭ”
  • Serbian: “Нуакшот”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nouakchott”
  • Shona: “Nouakchott”
  • Silesian: “Nawakszut”
  • Sindhi: “نوآڪ شوط”
  • Sinhala: “නොවැක්චොට්”
  • Slovak: “Nouakchott”
  • Slovenian: “Nouakchott”
  • Somali: “Nawakshot”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Nouakchott”
  • Spanish: “Nuakchot”
  • Swahili: “Nouakchott”
  • Swedish: “Nouakchott”
  • Tagalog: “Nouakchott”
  • Tagalog: “Nuakchot”
  • Tajik: “Нуакшот”
  • Tamil: “நவாக்சோட்”
  • Tamil: “நுவாக்சூத்”
  • Tamil: “நுவாக்ஷாட்”
  • Tamil: “நோவக்க்கோட்”
  • Telugu: “నౌవాషోట్”
  • Thai: “นูอากช็อต”
  • Thai: “นูแอกชอต”
  • Tibetan: “ནའུ་ཀ་ཅོ་ཊི།”
  • Tumbuka: “Nouakchott”
  • Turkish: “Nuakşot”
  • Turkmen: “Nuakşot”
  • Udmurt: “Нуакшот”
  • Ukrainian: “Нуакшот”
  • Urdu: “نواکشوط”
  • Uzbek: “Nuakshot”
  • Venetian: “Nouakchott”
  • Veps: “Nuakšot”
  • Vietnamese: “Nouakchott”
  • Volapük: “Nävakjut”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nouakchott”
  • Welsh: “Nouakchott”
  • Western Frisian: “Nouakchott”
  • Western Mari: “Нуакшот”
  • Western Panjabi: “نواکشوط”
  • Western Panjabi: “نوواکوٹ”
  • Wolof: “Nouakchott”
  • Wolof: “Nuwaaksot”
  • Wu Chinese: “努瓦克肖特”
  • Xhosa: “Nouakchott”
  • Yiddish: “נואקשאט”
  • Yiddish: “נואקשוט”
  • Yoruba: “Nouakchott”
  • Yue Chinese: “努瓦克肖特”
  • Yue Chinese: “或索”
  • Zulu: “i-Nouakchott”
  • “ma tomo Nakeso”

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